Word: central
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Oct. 10--The Central High School racial integration crisis subsided today into a silent deadlock...
...Orval Faubus stood firm on his stand that no compromise is in sight unless nine Negro students are withdrawn from integrated Central classrooms...
...dollars each year. "Buck" Turner is in charge of this job, and about the end of February, when the thaw starts to set in, he and his crew begin to puncture the maples with small plastic spigots connected by an elaborate system of polyethylene tubing running to a central collecting vat in the sugar house down the hill. Occasionally, just to preserve the true spirit of Vermont sugaring, they hitch up one of the few surviving teams of oxen in the territory and strike out into the bush to collect the syrup by hand. Sugaring lasts about a month...
...have any policy about what we shouldn't write about: sex, for instance?" a candidate asked. Another young man, apparently an officer, impeccably dressed, who had been standing in the background pulling his lip, answered. "Well, we don't like to have you write about hackneyed subjects like the central kitchen. As for sex, sex can be hilarious, but it oughtn't to be obscene. Use taste." (The business-like lecturer in front nodded in agreement and shuffled his notes.) "Yes, use your taste. Otherwise, though, in humor nothing is sacred...
...candidates from less prosperous areas than Brattle Street and Harvard Square. The association is generally headed by Harvard Square realtors and lawyers, and has generally focused its campaign on the more well-to-do sections of the city. This year, even though the association has established a headquarters in Central Square and are attempting to campaign vigorously in these areas, the candidates whom they have chosen to endorse from these sections are not of the high caliber of CCA-endorsed Councilor DeGuglielmo, Shaplin, and Mrs. Ogden. Many lack civic and legal experience; one city councilor candidate is venturing into city...